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Hungarian partridges. This article says 

 the method is infallible in the winter time. 



Can you tell me if English rabbits and 

 hares have been imported into the Uni- 

 ted States and if they have how they 

 have done? Can you tell me anything 

 about the two bird books published by 

 the Massachusetts department of agricul- 

 ture? 



As to our ruffed grouse becoming 

 scarce, we have had two bad berry years. 

 In 1916 there were practically no berries, 

 and in 1917 there was not one-tenth of 

 a crop. Then there is a very marked 

 increase in crows and magpies, and these 

 birds breed in the partridge or ruffed 

 grouse cover. Also two bad hatching 

 seasons and two extremely bad winters. 



If you can tell me the cause of this 

 peculiarity in human nature, it will not 

 only give me a lot of satisfaction, but 

 it should be worth a lot of money to me, 

 if I can apply it. In this country, with 

 game conditions as they are, bench show 

 setters are in demand ; bench show wolf- 

 hounds bring up to SI 50 as pups; bench 

 show airedales, foxterriers, Irish terriers 

 bring around $25 each as pups ; bulldogs, 

 Bostons and the toys bring from $25 to 

 $75 each as pups. 



There is no demand for setter or point- 

 er or Chesapeake pups of a first-class 

 working strain. It is very hard to sell 

 them at from $15 to $20 each. We can 

 buy extra large registered, trained Rus- 

 sian wolfhounds, guaranteed to be fast 

 and dead game, for $75 or less each. 

 Best pups of this strain $25 to $30. A 

 man will pay $50 for a bull pup, and hunt 

 chicken without a dog and wade in ice 

 water after his ducks. He will pay $75 

 for a sore-eyed poodle and insist that 

 he wants a bird dog but can not afford 

 to pay $15 for a good pup. I never ex- 

 pect to make any money out of dogs, 

 but the psychology is too deep for me 



F. V. 

 Alberta, Canada. 



Shades of Izaac Walton. 



A man who confined his activities to 

 fishing has been sent up for six months 

 in Syracuse under the new anti-loafing 

 law. Shades of Isaak Walton! — Even- 

 ing Mail. 



Crowd Captures a Deer. 



Anderson, Ind., June 1. — A live deer 

 was caught the other day in Hazlewood, 

 a suburb of Anderson. The deer escaped 

 from the Weslow deer farm, west of the 

 city, and had been at large. When seen 

 in Hazlewood it was pursued by a crowd 

 of men and boys until it was run down. 



Country Clubs in Time of War. 



In the "Fete de Mai" to be held on 

 Memorial Day at the Sleepy Hollow 

 Country Club there is a suggestion which 

 might well be adopted throughout the 

 United States this year. To many a 

 member of an organization of that kind 

 the thought must have come — why a 

 country club in wartime unless it contrib- 

 utes in some way to the common cause, 

 and how can a country club do that? It 

 may be that by making itself a center 

 for attractive entertainments for war 

 charities the Sleepy Hollow club has re- 

 moved the doubts referred to and an- 

 swered the questions of the doubters. 



Not many country clubs would be able 

 to command the quantity and the quality 

 of talent gathered together by the Sleepy 

 Hollow club for its Thursday entertain- 

 ment, but each city has its talented ama- 

 teurs. Performances given by these 

 would prove a strong attraction, and by 

 following the Sleepy Hollow example 

 other country clubs can become valuable 

 factors in raising money for war chari- 

 ties. 



The experiment is well worth trying. 

 Unless they in some way play a part in 

 meeting the national need of wartime 

 there will be no favorable answer to the 

 question — "why the country club?" 



[Many of the country clubs which have 

 game will produce thousands of wild food 

 birds. The crops will be harvested by sports- 

 men rejected for military duty, and since no 

 charge for their labor is made by the har- 

 vesters and, in fact, they pay to produce the 

 food, country clubs of this kind are doing a 

 great public service. Under the direction of 

 the Game Conservation Society some of these 

 clubs will contribute a good lot of game to 

 hospitals which entertain soldiers and sailors 

 returning from France. — Editor.] 



